| Teaching about writing, righting misconceptions D Downs, E Wardle College Composition & Communication 58 (4), 552-584, 2007 | 837 | 2007 |
| Writing about writing: A college reader E Wardle, D Downs Macmillan Higher Education, 2014 | 302 | 2014 |
| Representing gun owners: Frame identification as social responsibility in news media discourse D Downs Written Communication 19 (1), 44-75, 2002 | 90 | 2002 |
| Threshold concepts in first-year composition D Downs, L Robertson Adler-Kassner and Wardle, 105-21, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| Reflecting Back and Looking Forward: Revisiting E Wardle, D Downs Composition Forum 27, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Re-imagining the nature of FYC: Trends in writing-about-writing pedagogies D Downs, E Wardle Exploring composition studies: Sites, issues, perspectives, 123-144, 2012 | 43 | 2012 |
| True believers, real scholars, and real true believing scholars: Discourses of inquiry and affirmation in the composition classroom D Downs Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom, 39-55, 2005 | 40 | 2005 |
| What is first-year composition? D Downs A rhetoric for writing program administrators, 50-63, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| Teaching first-year writers to use texts: Scholarly readings in writing-about-writing in first-year comp D Downs Reader, 19, 2010 | 30 | 2010 |
| Revision is central to developing writing D Downs Naming what we know: Threshold concepts of writing studies. Boulder, CO …, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Rhetoric: Making sense of human interaction and meaning-making D Downs Writing about writing, 369-395, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| What can a novice contribute? Undergraduate researchers in first-year composition D Downs, E Wardle Undergraduate research in English studies, 173-90, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| Uniform Meets Rhetoric: Excellence through Interaction A Mallory, D Downs Generation Vet: Composition, Student-Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University …, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Writing-about-writing curricula: Origins, theories, and initial field-tests D Downs WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies 12, 2010 | 16 | 2010 |
| Writing about writing: A college reader D Downs, E Wardle Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2011 | 14 | 2011 |
| Understanding the nature of disciplinarity in terms of composition’s values E Wardle, D Downs Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity, 111-133, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Response to Miles et al. D Downs, D Downs College Composition and Communication 60 (1), 171-175, 2008 | 12 | 2008 |
| Next steps: New directions for/in writing about writing B Bird, D Downs, IM McCracken, J Rieman University Press of Colorado, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| 11 Looking into Writing-about-Writing Classrooms E Wardle, D Downs First-Year composition: From theory to practice, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| Spanning student networks: Designing undergraduate research journal websites to foster student–student mentoring D Downs Computers and Composition 60, 102642, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
